PSYCHOKINESIS

Mason recently celebrated his 7th birthday which resulted in several Lego projects to build. We have been teaming up to construct SpongeBob, The Krusty Krab, and several cars lately after homework. Last night he opened a Bionicle project and dumped in on the kitchen table. I didn't have time to help him and I asked him to move the project to the living room to make way for dinner.

After Mason was in bed and I was lounging about watching The Daily Show and playing SNGs, I decided to construct the Bionicle dude to surprise Mason with it in the morning. It was a small job with only nine steps. The visual directions were tiny and hard to make out in bad light. On step two, I saw that I needed two small black rods but I could only find one. I looked all around me but the search was in vain. I realized that the only place it could be was under the kitchen table since that is where the pieces were originally dumped and was the only way that Mason would have missed a piece in the transfer.

Positive that I would find a small black rod under the kitchen table, I went into the kitchen, squatted down, lifted the table and there it was under one of the legs. When I got back to the project, I realized that I had made a mistake and I didn't need two black rods but only one. So I built the Bionicle to completion through all nine steps and as it turns out that small black rod was never needed. So, I'm left to wonder, if I had been positive that I would find a small red rod under that table, would I have?